Dear Rainforest Friends, It is finally here! This is the last blog in my series about the places to visit in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. The San Gerardo Field Station is a great place to see while in Monteverde, the second most frequented destination in all of Costa Rica (it closely follows La Fortuna, the [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, I only have two more places to share with you that are open to the public in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, and they are my favorite sites to visit. I, of course, love every part of the reserve, but the field stations have everything a traveling nature-lover needs: beds, bathrooms, food, hiking [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, I was going to postpone writing this blog until later, as a grand finale to the series of blogs introducing you to the various places within the CER. I changed my strategy, though, because there was a group of nature lovers who organized a hike through the CER that I just had [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, The Three Wattled Bellbird is one of the many species throughout the world that is in serious danger of extinction. The bird has some amazing qualities, and like all other species struggling to survive in a shrinking natural world, it needs our help. Debra Hamilton and her team at the Costa Rican [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, The Children’s Eternal Rainforest is a very special place, and means a lot to many people all over the world. It has had countless visitors, and everyone who has explored this lush and vibrant forest appreciates it in their own way. An employee of the MCL might see the CER as a [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, I want to introduce you to one of the places least visited by tourists in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. It is not under-visited because it is an unattractive place (every place in the CER is beautiful), but because it is set off the beaten path. In fact, its visitation has been on [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, The CER is absolutely full of wonderful wildlife, and is a prime site for birders. Birding groups as well as loan travelers make it a point to visit both the San Gerardo and Pocosol Field Stations during the high birding season, and a recent visitor was able to take this wonderful photograph [...]

  Dear Rainforest Friends, One of the comments that I have heard from many visitors to Costa Rica is concerning the amount of development that has occurred there in the last 5 to 10 years. Before the strong tourism boom, the beaches were not lined by 25 story resort hotels, there were very few paved [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, The cloud forest is one of the most uncommon ecosystems in the world, and also one of the most threatened due to global climate change. It is a complex environment, with an incredible amount of biodiversity found throughout its many misty layers. The cloud forest receives its nutrients not only from rainfall [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, For those of you who have had the opportunity to visit the Children’s Eternal Rainforest (CER), you may already be familiar with everything I have written in this entry, but for those readers who have not had the chance to visit I would like to introduce them to one of the best [...]